Actually, those 40-minute meters won't be affected, Hultine said. This is only for the long-term meters, which counts those out. Those short-term meters will still be left the same, to keep them clear for drop-offs, etc. Around 225 of the 277 meters on campus are long-term meters, she said.

Well, plans aren't to allow metered parking anywhere — just in that one lot by the football stadium, and possibly in more lots in the future if the service is used widely. Hultine said she wasn't sure how it would impact Parking and Transit's revenue, and the idea is to make it easier for visitors or people without permits to park.

It looks like the DoD is researching broader questions about global topics that could be applied to a lot of different places — in this case, what might make indigenous groups more or less susceptible to poverty, violence, etc. For instance, Herlihy said, it may have been helpful for the U.S. to have a deeper understanding of groups such as the Kurds in Iraq.

During a chat about KU's master planning process for a story in our KU Today edition (coming in August!), Modig did say the Stouffer Place complex is one area of campus that could be used better as things become more crowded. He mentioned the possibility of replacing them with a denser development with more stories, rather than the 25 different two-story buildings that are there now. That would open up space for other development in that area. Not to mention at least some of them are quite old — this building in question was built in the 1950s, according to that engineering report.